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March 10, 2011

Graphic facilitation is a business in growth. I think everybody in the field agrees with me on that. There seems to be an abundance of work where each job feeds into the next. And I wonder… why is that? Why does it work? Why are people so enthusiastic about the process and results? full article>>

November 11, 2010

Caricaturing Economists

I was at the Legg Mason Thought Leader Forum last week, talking about my research over recent years on prediction markets. It was good fun, but the real novelty was that as I was speaking — literally, in real time — there was a cartoonist next to the stage, cartooning my talk on a five-foot-wide poster. I’ve never seen this before, but it was a real hit.

As a speaker, it can be hard to organize your own thoughts even when you know what is coming next. And as an audience member, it can be harder still to sort out the key points a speaker makes from their conversational asides. But the artist — Christopher Fuller who works for Sente Corporation— was just amazing. He not only picked out the important analytic insights, but found an incredibly useful way to represent them, cartooning (or perhaps caricaturing) my message.

I think this is a great idea, and it will serve as a useful reminder to those who heard the talk. And if you weren’t there, hopefully this cartoon gives you some sense of what I had to say.

Now if only I could get my MBA students to do the same thing, they would all have a wonderfully entertaining set of notes to study in advance of their exams. I would love to see a study figuring out whether it helps them retain the material. I bet it would.

August 04, 2010

Andrea Saveri has spent her career as a futurist, doing forecasting and probing ambiguities of things to come. In her keynote address, she speaks to IFVP members about the ambiguous and complex landscape that we are living in, populated by black swans, wicked problems and cognitive surplus.

She emphasizes that organizations are forced to plan for a future that they don't understand in a present that is influenced by vast, complex systems.

January 06, 2010

Jonathan Haber is a personal coach with a fascinating mash-up of interests and clients, including meditation, yoga, wellness professionals, coaches, artists and facilitators.
His post on 101 Ways to Get More Coaching Clients is a list of ideas that are helpful to any facilitator, consultant, coach or creative practitioner, whether re-booting a client base or building one from scratch.

Often, learning is not enough. It’s not enough to watch a great podcast or go to a great conference and learn new things, try new techniques, or even meet interesting people. The natural high that comes from learning and attending an event can fade quickly, that is, if you don’t do something about it. Have you ever got back from a class, webinar, or conference filled with ideas, yet your colleagues don’t get it? They look at you funny and then keep going about their work. Then the daily demands and pressures of work click in and quickly the natural high has dissipated and the learning has been forgotten.

Well it doesn’t have to be that way! In this 17 minute, 54 second, we talk with Lance Dublin, change management and implementation guru, about how to take those ideas and put them to work (even with people who weren’t there) when you get back home or to the office.

March 22, 2007

Moo is a Web 2.0 service takes content from other web and print apps (iLife, Flickr, Bebo) and mashed the content together with on-demand printing. Both the site and the products are very savvy and design oriented. Great for creating
rich, artistic, post-event deliverables for
participants.

December 15, 2006

For excellent advice on the business of the business of creativity, there is no better place to turn than... CreativeBusiness.com!

Cameron Foote is founder and editor and has forty years of industry experience including stints at small and large agencies, as creative director for a Fortune 500 firm, and running his own business.

His books,The Business Side of Creativity and The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business, are the industry's most authoritative, and best-selling business bibles. Nearly 40,000 copies have been sold.